alt Hacker NewsIt's frankly desperate trend chasing from management that lost after starting from near total market domination, and have no idea what to do now.
It's frankly desperate trend chasing from management that lost after starting from near total market domination, and have no idea what to do now.
> starting from near total market domination
That's not really accurate: Firefox peaked somewhere around 30% market share back when IE was dominant, and then Chrome took over the top spot within a few years of launching.
FWIW, I think there's just no good move for Mozilla. They're competing against 3 of the biggest companies in the world who can cross-subsidise browser development as a loss-leader, and can push their own browsers as the defaults on their respective platforms. The most obvious way to make money from a browser - harvesting user data - is largely unavailable to them.